Thinking caps

ACROSS

1 French Sudan, today

5 Dutch shoe

10 Like many a cellar

14 Oscar nominee Clive

15 Former

16 “An apple ___ ...”

17 Thoroughly

20 Parkinson’s drug

21 What a wedding planner needs 22 Soul singer Redding

25 Some sports cars, for short 26 Ever

30 Muss up, as clothing 33 Concerning birth

34 Heed

35 Airport X-ray agcy.

38 What a plane may come down with 42 Organ ending?

43 Metric measurement, briefly 44 Bud Grace comic strip

45 Like a patchwork quilt 47 Members of the mil.

48 Sarah of politics

51 Some breads

53 Modified

56 Air freshener outputs 60 64 65 66 67 68 69 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 19 23 24 26

Better than fantastic Marine eagle Unsophisticated Knitting need Scholarship criterion Church assembly Duel tool

DOWN

Bon ___ (witty saying)

Gone, but not forgotten? Detective’s need

Dirt or data, briefly

One nursery-rhyme Jack

“___ you sure?”

It may be boring

Cries at fireworks

Orchard part

Dilly-dally

Turn ___ ear (refuse to listen) Island south of Sicily Mayberry’s Goober and Gomer Mission to the moon

And others, for short

Like some humor

Less obvious

Nay sayer 27 Fancy shooting marbles 28 Nuclear energy source 29 Napkin’s place 31 Something to hum 32 Myanmar’s monetary unit 35 Sound of a small bell 36 Angry state

37 Forever and a day 39 Mamie’s man

40 Loch sighting, some say 41 AMA members

45 Made a metallic sound 46 Chinese leader? 48 Eucharist plate

49 Dean Martin song subject 50 Sierra ___

52 Fix firmly in place

54 See 37-Down

55 June 6, 1944 57 Eye-opening problem 58 Duffer’s challenge

59 “Of course I will”

61 ___ Pan Alley

62 Ab ___ (from day one) 63 Vane dir., sometimes